If the Battle of the Philippine Sea had played out differently, Japan's navy might have been decimated by June 1944. One of the world’s largest and most advanced battleships was discovered this ...

The battle for Leyte was ending ... the Japanese had kept on pushing reinforcements from other Philippine islands into Leyte, where they had no time to learn the terrain or to assemble a full ...

Rather than strike directly at Luzon, Army and Navy planners decided first to capture the Philippine islands of Leyte and Mindoro ... Losses stemming from the battle so drastically reduced ...

MANILA, Philippines — Three earthquakes of different magnitudes rocked the island of Leyte yesterday afternoon, according to the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology. Phivolcs said ...

As the battle came to an end ... MacArthur and his Sixth Army returned to the Phillipines by way of the island of Leyte. More than two and a half years had passed since MacArthur had reluctantly ...

bordering the Leyte Gulf to the east. This gulf was the site of the historic Battle of Leyte Gulf, regarded as the largest naval battle in history during World War II. The province holds a ...

The battle for Leyte, now wallowing along in the tropical ... convoy of three Japanese transports and a destroyer off Masbate Island, in the Visayan Sea northwest of Leyte. The Yankee fighters ...

Kalanggaman Island, located between Cebu and Leyte provinces, is known for its sandbar that stretches on both sides of the ...

During the Philippine Sea battle, Cavalla and Albacore would put those torpedoes to good use by pulling off a major feat: sinking one Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) aircraft carrier apiece.